Access Fantasies

1970: the IDS still
a deep hole in the ground, Philip Johnson's
glass house in extremis rising slowly,
a fantasy public gathering place:
"Skyways will connect Dayton's, Donaldson's,
Midwest Federal, and points north, west, east!
Bring us your tired, your weary!" But don't sit
in the atrium, not if you are young,
or not if you are unable to pay
eight bucks for lunch at a table. So we
paced from Dayton's to Donaldson's and back,
avoiding the cold and the dirty snow,
peering up the Mall through ice-glazed windows,
guessing when to run for the 6A bus.